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		<lastmod>2007-11-28T09:01:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-11-28T09:02:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-11-28T09:02:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-11-28T09:02:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-11-28T09:02:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-11-28T09:04:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Southeast England's Wisley Garden shows off Japanese chrysanthemums.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2007-11-29T09:00:11+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-11-29T09:00:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-11-29T09:00:36+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-11-29T09:00:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/11/29/business/defect-finding-autoworker-blows-whistle-on-new-toyota-way/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-11-29T09:00:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors examine cars at the Toyota Mega Wave showroom in Tokyo last month.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2007-11-29T09:00:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/11/29/national/unhcr-chief-pitches-third-country-resettlement/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-11-29T09:01:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Antonio Guterres]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2007-11-30T09:01:13+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Researchers hope a small device like this will soon be able to identify species by analyzing a tiny biological sample.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-01T09:00:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Bullet train Toki 325 sits derailed in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, after a strong earthquake in October 2004.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The Two-legged robot e-nuvo WALK, made by ZMP, kicks a ball during a press preview Thursday in Tokyo. The robot runs on Microsoft's new robotics software.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hepatitis C victims (from right) Satoko Kuwata, Shizue Ikeda and Asami Fujimura face reporters Thursday after rejecting a compromise proposed by the Osaka High Court to resolve their suit against the state and drugmakers.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/14/national/kepco-to-revive-plan-to-use-mox-fuel/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-14T09:00:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-14T09:00:56+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sumie Ikeda, a representative of plaintiffs seeking compensation from the state for failing to support them after they were abandoned in China at the end of the war, speaks to reporters Thursday in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki district.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/14/national/readers-contributions-aiding-struggling-refugees-in-japan/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Japan Association for Refugees staffer offers advice at the group's office in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, late last year.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/14/business/top-banks-asked-to-back-rescue-fund/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-14T09:02:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-14T09:02:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-14T09:03:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-14T09:03:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-14T09:03:26+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-14T09:03:32+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[An elementary school built by AMATAK House of Cambodia in the village of Damrei Krom holds a completion ceremony in 2000.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/15/national/wakabayashi-defends-whaling-system/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-12-15T09:00:49+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[This vacant lot at a nursing-care facility near JR Shibuya Station will be turned into a vegetable garden. Shibuya Ward will rent the 818-sq.-meter plot for use by its residents next April.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/15/business/subprime-woes-dog-the-tankan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-12-15T09:02:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-15T09:02:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The remains of a woman with an infant are seen in one of several burial holes at a mass grave site recently discovered by Japanese researchers in northwestern Syria.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/15/business/no-way-for-japan-to-escape-u-s-downturn/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-12-15T09:02:41+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/15/national/foreign-college-grad-students-up/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-12-15T09:02:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/15/national/fukuda-seeks-set-law-on-sdf-deployments/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-12-15T09:02:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title><![CDATA[nn20071215a4a.jpg]]></image:title>
			<image:caption><![CDATA[Yasuo Fukuda]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/15/business/morinaga-to-hike-prices-cut-volumes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-12-15T09:03:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/15/national/msdf-aegis-ship-ready-to-test-sm-3-off-kauai/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-12-15T09:03:24+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[The 7,250-ton Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Kongou's superstructure is displayed to the media Thursday at a U.S. naval base in Honolulu.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/15/national/stolen-pc-had-college-entrance-exam-questions/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-12-15T09:04:12+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/15/national/genome-of-moss-study-shows-plant-migration/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-12-15T09:04:39+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/16/business/nissan-may-ink-mutual-supply-deal-with-chrysler/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-12-16T09:00:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-16T09:01:38+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shigetoshi Fujimoto, the elder brother of Yuji Fujimoto, one of the two people killed in Friday's shooting, speaks to reporters in front of his house here on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/16/business/cucumber-investment-plan-stirs-isle-row-fears/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-12-16T09:01:51+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/16/national/suspect-in-gym-shootings-found-dead-at-church/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-12-16T09:02:21+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Police comb the grounds of the church where Masayoshi Magome (left), the alleged gunman in Friday's shooting rampage in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, was found dead Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/16/national/four-hurt-in-fire-on-msdf-destroyer/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-12-16T09:02:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-16T09:02:45+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A monk throws confetti resembling lotus petals into the air Saturday during the finale of a Buddhist fashion show at Tsukiji Honganji temple in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/16/national/defense-scandal-may-cut-budget-for-upgrading-f-15s/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-12-16T09:03:37+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rescuers break into a gondola Saturday evening to rescue stranded passengers from a ski lift at the Ontake 2240 ski area in the village of Otaki.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-17T09:03:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-17T09:04:37+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-18T09:01:02+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-18T09:01:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-18T09:01:31+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-18T09:01:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Mistletoe]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/18/business/household-financial-assets-see-20-trillion-plunge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-12-18T09:02:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/18/national/police-ignored-neighbors-concern-about-gunman/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-12-18T09:03:00+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Students walk in a group to Yamate Elementary School in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Monday morning, as Vice Principal Yuko Inoue greets them.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/18/national/death-penalty-foes-await-u-n-moratorium-vote/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rieko Mikami, whose husband was murdered in 2005, faces reporters Tuesday in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, after a Brazilian court sentenced a man to 34 years for the crime.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-20T09:00:51+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Investigators cordon off a police box at JR Tokyo Station where an officer apparently fatally shot himself Wednesday.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/20/business/apple-ntt-in-tieup-talks-to-sell-iphone/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-20T09:01:43+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-20T09:01:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-20T09:02:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-20T09:02:11+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honda Motor Co. President Takeo Fukui holds a yearend news conference Wednesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/20/business/japan-carmakers-find-an-opening-in-u-s-market-on-the-skids/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-12-20T09:02:19+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Honda dealerships like this one in Los Angeles are chalking up higher sales of new and used vehicles.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/20/business/nikko-wins-ok-for-citigroup-linkup/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-20T09:03:17+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-20T09:03:18+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/20/national/coalition-panel-expand-a-bomb-recognition-scope/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-20T09:04:06+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-20T09:04:33+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-20T09:04:57+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-21T09:00:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People shop for Shiroi Koibito chocolate cookies in a department store Nov. 22, the first day sales resumed after a mislabeling scandal halted production]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[High returns are promised in a pamphlet by Furusato Farm Co., which is suspected of fraudulently collecting money for ownership of domestically raised "wagyu" cattle.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-21T09:01:58+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-21T09:02:08+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toshihiko Fukui]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-21T09:03:12+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga speaks about the fiscal 2008 draft budget at a news conference Thursday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hepatitis C patients suing the state and drugmakers face reporters Thursday in Tokyo after their demand is snubbed.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/22/national/court-eyes-new-hepatitis-lawsuit-settlement-plan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-12-22T09:00:04+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Haron Amin]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/22/national/dpj-bill-sdf-would-fight-terrorists-in-afghanistan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-12-22T09:01:48+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/22/national/japan-eyes-pac-3-interceptor-test-in-new-mexico-in-08/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-12-22T09:01:50+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/22/business/what-every-travel-agent-knows-tis-the-season-to-splurge/</loc>
		<lastmod>2007-12-22T09:02:09+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Visitors to Tokyo's Odaiba take a photo in front of Christmas illuminations.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-25T09:04:50+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Economic and fiscal policy minister Hiroko Ota speaks to reporters Tuesday after announcing measures to deal with rising oil prices.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan's Robot of the year, Fanuc Ltd.'s robotic arms can each pick up 120 items a minute off a conveyor belt.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Seiko Sakurai shows an altitude maintenance device, a key component in "balloon bombs" used by the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II, in Yokohama last week.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda bows in apology to people infected with hepatitis C through tainted blood products during a meeting at his official residence Tuesday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A Clarity, Honda's new fuel-cell vehicle, is refueled at the company's research and development unit in Los Angeles last month, while a peek under its hood is shown below.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/12/27/national/mayor-resigns-over-u-s-fighter-relocation/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-27T09:02:04+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2007-12-27T09:02:17+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and Hiroshi Okuda (left), senior adviser of Toyota Motor Corp., chat at the Prime Minister's Official Residence following Okuda's appointment Wednesday as special adviser to the Cabinet as Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura (right) looks on.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sadakazu Tanigaki, head of the Liberal Democratic Party's Policy Research Council, addresses a meeting of the ruling coalition's task force on hepatitis C at the Diet members' office compound Wednesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A biography of Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda has been published in China prior to his visit to the country this week. The 323-page book describes Fukuda as one of Japan's leading pro-China politicians.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A defective reclining bed that killed a 4-year-old boy in Aichi Prefecture this month is seen in this photo released Wednesday by the National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hideko Yoshimura, a survivor of the Himeyuri Student Nurse Corps in the 1945 Battle of Okinawa, gives a speech in Tokyo earlier this year about her experiences.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A man walks past a stock indicator Wednesday in Tokyo. Many market watchers believe the Nikkei average will probably move between ¥14,000 and ¥18,000 until spring, with bear market conditions prevailing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Miki Watanabe, president of Watami Co., is interviewed Wednesday at the firm's head office in Tokyo's Ota Ward.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ignatinus Low (second from right) of The Straits Times speaks Dec. 13 during a symposium at Keidanren Kaikan in Tokyo about Japan's free-trade accord with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, while his copanelists (from left) Dadan Wijaksana, Siew Lian Lee and Nophakhun Limsamarnphun listen.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A visitor signs a book of condolence at the Pakistani ambassador's residence in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, Saturday for slain ex-Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (right) and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao laugh after they played catch with a baseball in the gymnasium of Beijing's state guesthouse Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[People make their way through falling snow Sunday morning.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[These metal alloy specimens are used to monitor the strength of pressure vessels in nuclear reactors.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takashi Koizumi sells the Big Issue monthly magazine in Chuo Ward, Tokyo, earlier this month.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Jazz drummer Eric Kamau Gravatt smiles during a recent tour of central Tokyo. After a long hiatus during which he worked as a prison guard, Gravatt has gone back to performing with piano legend McCoy Tyner.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Cancer patient Nobuhito Kiyosato is interviewed in Tokyo last month.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masanao Ozaki]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Toru Hashimoto]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2008-01-12T09:01:23+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-01-12T09:01:33+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuo Furukawa]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2008-01-12T09:01:53+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/01/12/business/money-supply-rose-by-1-6-in-07/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-01-12T09:01:55+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-01-12T09:02:16+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Rodion Moiseev and Shino Narumi pose on Dec. 9 at Kanda Myojin Shrine in Tokyo, where they plan to marry in April.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/01/12/business/sanyo-fined-for-faulty-accounting/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-01-12T09:02:22+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-01-12T09:02:25+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Plaintiffs WHO were infected with hepatitis C from tainted blood products are overcome with emotion Friday while watching the Upper House pass a bill to provide relief measures for such cases.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/01/12/national/lower-house-rams-through-antiterrorism-bill/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda smiles at Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba before voting on a special antiterrorism bill Friday in the Lower House.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Copies of sample maps show commuters how to get home on foot if a major earthquake paralyzes transport services in the Kanto region.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Local residents peer into a cave used by Japanese straggler Hiroo Onoda as a hideout. The cave is called "puting bato," which means "white stone" in English.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/01/12/national/ministry-suspends-goodwills-operations/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa leaves the Lower House during a full session Friday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Models and dogs strut during the finale of Pet Fashion Week NY at Tokyo Big Sight on Saturday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japan Coast Guard personnel at a storage facility of oil refiner Idemitsu Kosan Co. try to clean up crude oil that spilled into Tokuyama Bay in Shunan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Sunday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2008-01-15T09:01:44+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Health-care volunteers in Zambia make the rounds of villages on bicycles sent from Japan under a joint project of the Japanese Organization for International Cooperation in Family Planning and 13 local governments.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/01/15/national/ministry-official-held-over-bribes/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-01-15T09:02:22+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ichiro Ozawa]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoji Muneoka]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/01/18/business/cabinet-says-budget-wont-be-balanced-by-11-target/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[A woman weeps as she takes part in an event Thursday morning at Higashi Yuenchi Park in Kobe to mark the 13th anniversary of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/01/18/business/nippon-paper-loses-key-clients/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masatomo Nakamura, president of Nippon Paper Group Inc., faces reporters Wednesday in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/01/18/national/interacting-with-locals-called-key-role-in-eco-tourism/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Hashime Sato, a resident of Ichinoseki, Iwate Prefecture, together with her son pay their respects in November to Sato's deceased husband, Sadao, who is buried under an azalea on a hill in the city.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kyocera Corp. President Makoto Kawamura (left) and Sanyo Electric Co. Executive Vice President Kentaro Yamagishi hold a news conference Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Japanese operators of nursing homes watch Filipino nurses taking a Japanese-language lesson in Subic, the Philippines, last October.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Canadian ambassador Joseph Caron gives a lecture Thursday at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sakuji Yoshimura, head of Cyber University, holds a news conference Monday.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Takehiko Hirasawa, 49, talks about his struggle to clear the name of his late adoptive father, Sadamichi, at his home in Tokyo, surrounded by the latter's paintings.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Ex-Livedoor President Kozo Hiramatsu talks about his upcoming space flight in New York on Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2008-01-23T09:01:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Shoichiro Suzuki, chairman of the Japan Paper Association, speaks about the recycled paper falsification scandal at a news conference Monday.]]></image:caption>
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		<lastmod>2008-01-23T09:02:09+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-01-23T09:03:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-01-23T09:03:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Members of prefectural assemblies from across the nation gather Wednesday in Tokyo for a rally to continue the current rates on auto-related taxes, which are due to expire.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/01/24/business/japan-post-ad-biz-entry-to-get-nod/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-01-24T09:01:54+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-01-24T09:02:01+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Izumi Yamanaka, the mother of a 2-week-old baby killed last week in an alleged robbery-murder, apparently jumped to her death Wednesday from this overpass in Osaka.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/01/24/national/asset-designated-areas-skip-fire-drills/</loc>
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		<lastmod>2008-01-24T09:02:39+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Fujio Mitarai (right), chairman of the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren), and Tsuyoshi Takagi, chairman of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo), attend a Wednesday meeting in Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/01/24/national/bill-to-keep-high-gas-tax-reaches-diet/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-01-24T09:02:42+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/01/24/business/chinas-baidu-begins-services-in-japanese/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-01-24T09:02:46+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/01/24/national/new-cram-school-blurs-public-and-private-line/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-01-24T09:02:59+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Kazuhiro Fujihara, a businessman turned principal, wants gifted students to have access to private exam-prep courses on the premises of Wada Junior High School in Suginami Ward, Tokyo.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/01/24/national/croatia-opens-tokyo-office-to-promote-tourism-ties/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-01-24T09:03:08+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/01/24/national/sia-to-improve-resend-notices-on-missing-pension-records/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-01-24T09:05:25+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/01/25/business/suzuki-projects-7-surge-on-brisk-sales-abroad-in-08/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-01-25T09:00:07+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-01-25T09:00:45+09:00</lastmod>
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		<lastmod>2008-01-25T09:01:32+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/01/25/business/nintendo-nine-month-profit-doubles/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-01-25T09:02:34+09:00</lastmod>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Masato and Yukiko Joshima, whose son Hiroyuki died of carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a Paloma water heater, head to the Tokyo District Court with their supporters Thursday morning.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Realistic chocolate beetle larvae have recently become best-selling products of Akita-based confectioner Komatsuya Honten.]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sumiyo Tsuzuki]]></image:caption>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Sailors and their families spend a few last moments together aboard the Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Murasame before its departure Thursday from Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, bound for the Indian Ocean.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/01/25/national/cram-school-in-public-junior-high-gets-metro-nod/</loc>
		<lastmod>2008-01-25T09:05:05+09:00</lastmod>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/01/26/national/gaza-kids-key-victims-of-the-man-made-disaster/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Geraldine Shawa]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/01/26/national/pair-mutually-strive-to-broaden-their-horizon-perspective/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Alexander Bright poses with wife, Akiko Yamada, and their 2-month-old daughter, Akane, at their home in Warabi, Saitama Prefecture, on Jan. 13.]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/01/26/national/study-warns-of-measles-epidemic-as-cases-surge/</loc>
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			<image:caption><![CDATA[Suzuka Hatakeyama]]></image:caption>
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		<loc>https://wp.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/01/26/business/kadokawa-to-put-videos-on-youtube/</loc>
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